Ally Carter Quotes
It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.
Ally Carter
Quotes to Explore
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Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Samuel Johnson
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Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
Barney Oliver
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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the middle east is to enhance the civil rights and social equality of women, remind them that we very enthusiastically destroyed the most secular country over there, where women could dress as they liked, have good jobs, be literate, and vote.
L. Neil Smith
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Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? and is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept?
Walter Bagehot
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Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes,And pause a while from learning to be wise.There mark what ills the scholar's life assail - Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
Samuel Johnson
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Let us do our thinking on these great questions, not with our eyes fixed on our bank account, but with a wise outlook on the fields of the future and with the consciousness that the spirit of the Eternal is seeking to distil from our lives, some essence of righteousness, before they pass away.
Walter Rauschenbusch
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Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite much pubilicity to the contrary, was he a particularly clever or even wise one. But he was a great man, perhaps the gratest Canada has produced in this century.
Peter Brimelow
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Socrates argued that only God can be a sophist, only God can be truly wise.
Bettany Hughes
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It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.
Ally Carter
